Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens beat director, Robert Eggers, to The Lighthouse

The drama opens with the keepers cut off by a storm, wondering how many weeks they have been there for. Hunger and alcohol induced hallucinations take hold and the older keeper confesses to a murder that guiltily haunts him. Confessing in a moment of confusion, he then ‘gaslights’ the younger into believing it is he who is going mad.

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